How quickly will DVD become established?
Not as fast as some early predictions, but faster than videotape, laserdisc, and CD. Before it’s third birthday in March 2000, DVD had become the most successful consumer electronics product ever. Here are some predictions: • Toshiba (1996): 100,000 to 150,000 DVD-Video players will be sold in Japan between Nov. 1 and Dec. 31, 1996, and 750,000-1 million by Nov. 1, 1997. (Actual count of combined shipments by Matsushita, Pioneer, and Toshiba was 70,000 in Oct-Dec 1996.) • Pioneer (1996): 400,000 DVD-Video players in 1996, 11 million by 2000. 100,000 DVD-Audio players in 1996, 4 million by 2000. • InfoTech (1996): 820,000 DVD-Video players in first year, 80 million by 2005. • CEMA (1997): 400,000 DVD-Video players in U.S. in 1997, 1 million in 1998. • Time-Warner (1996): 10 million DVD players in the U.S. by 2002. • Paul Kagan (1997): 800,000 DVD players in the U.S. in 1997, 10 million in 2000, and 40 million in 2006 (43% penetration). 5.6 million discs sold in 1997, 172 million discs i
Not as fast as generally predicted, but faster than videotape, laserdisc, and CD. By the end of 1997 over 500,000 DVD-Video players shipped worldwide. 349,482 of these were in the US (with about 200,000 actually sold into homes). About ?? DVD video titles were available worldwide, with ?? million copies shipped. About 600 DVD video titles were available in the US, with over 5 million copies shipped and about 2 million sold. Around 330,000 DVD-ROM drives were shipped worldwide with about 1 million bundled DVD-ROM titles. Only 60 DVD-ROM titles were available by the end of 1997, most of them bundled with PCs or drive upgrade kits.
Not as fast as generally predicted, but faster than videotape, laserdisc, and CD. By the end of 1997 over 500,000 DVD-Video players shipped worldwide. 349,482 of these were in the US (with about 200,000 actually sold into homes). About ?? video titles were available worldwide, with ?? million copies shipped. About 600 video titles were available in the US, with over 5 (?) million copies shipped and about 2 million sold. Around 330,000 DVD-ROM drives were shipped worldwide with about 1 million bundled DVD-ROM titles. Only 60 DVD-ROM titles were available by the end of 1997. Here are some predictions: • Toshiba (1996): 100,000 to 150,000 DVD-Video players will be sold in Japan between Nov. 1 and Dec. 31, 1996, and 750,000-1 million by Nov. 1, 1997. (Actual count of combined shipments by Matsushita, Pioneer, and Toshiba was 70,000 in Oct-Dec 1996.) • Pioneer (1996): 400,000 DVD-Video players in 1996, 11 million by 2000. 100,000 DVD-Audio players in 1996, 4 million by 2000.
Not as fast as generally predicted, but faster than videotape, laserdisc, and CD. By the end of 1997 over 500,000 DVD-Video players shipped worldwide. 349,482 of these were in the US (with about 200,000 actually sold into homes). About 600 DVD video titles were available in the US, with over 5 million copies shipped and about 2 million sold. Around 330,000 DVD-ROM drives were shipped worldwide with about 1 million bundled DVD-ROM titles. Only 60 DVD-ROM titles were available by the end of 1997, most of them bundled with PCs or drive upgrade kits. By the end of 1999, there were almost 5 million DVD-Video players in the US, and about 30 million DVD PCs. Here are some predictions: • Toshiba (1996): 100,000 to 150,000 DVD-Video players will be sold in Japan between Nov. 1 and Dec. 31, 1996, and 750,000-1 million by Nov. 1, 1997. (Actual count of combined shipments by Matsushita, Pioneer, and Toshiba was 70,000 in Oct-Dec 1996.
Nobody knows. Here are a few predictions: • Toshiba: 100,000 to 150,000 DVD-Video players will be sold in Japan between Nov. 1 and Dec. 31, 1996, and 750,000-1 million by Nov. 1, 1997. (Actual count of combined shipments by Matsushita, Pioneer, and Toshiba was 70,000 in Oct-Dec 1996.) • Pioneer: 400,000 DVD-Video players in 1996, 11 million by 2000. 100,000 DVD-Audio players in 1996, 4 million by 2000. • InfoTech: 820,000 DVD-Video players in first year, 80 million by 2005. • Time-Warner: 10 million DVD-Video players in the U.S. by 2002. • C-Cube: 1 million players and drives in 1997. • Dataquest: over 33 million shipments of DVD players and drives by 2000. • Philips: 25 million DVD-ROM drives worldwide by 2000 (10% of projected 250 million optical drives). • Pioneer: 500,000 DVD-ROM drives sold in 1997, 54 million sold in 2000. • Toshiba: 120 million DVD-ROM drives in 2000 (80% penetration of 100 million PCs). Toshiba says they will no longer make CD-ROM drives in 2000. • IDC: 10 mill
